Public Figures & Cultural Luminaries

Arts & Music

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie

France

1866 – 1925 (59 years old)

Eccentric French avant-garde composer and pianist whose Gymnopédies and Furniture Music anticipated minimalism and ambient sound.

Arcueil (Paris), France

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Politics

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Christian Michelsen

Peter Christian Hersleb Kjerschow Michelsen

Norway

1857-03-15 – 1925-06-29 (68 years old)

Visionary Norwegian statesman and shipping magnate who served as Prime Minister in 1905, masterminding the peaceful dissolution of the 91-year union with Sweden.

Bergen, Norway

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Sciences & Discovery

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Felix Klein

Christian Felix Klein

Germany

1849 – 1925 (76 years old)

German mathematician who unified geometry through group theory in his Erlangen Program and discovered the non-orientable one-sided closed surface known as the Klein bottle.

Gottingen, Germany

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Robert M. La Follette Sr.

Robert Marion La Follette Sr.

United States

1855 – 1925 (70 years old)

Leader of the Progressive Movement known as 'Fighting Bob', Governor and Senator from Wisconsin who pioneered direct primary elections and workers' compensation.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

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Literature & Poetry

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Geo Milev

Георги Милев Касабов

Bulgaria

1895-01-15 – 1925-05-15 (30 years old)

Visionary expressionist poet, painter, and theatre innovator whose explosive 1924 modernist poem 'Septemvri' ('September') protested state brutality, leading to his torture and secret execution by state police in 1925.

Sofia, Bulgaria

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Arts & Music

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John Singer Sargent

John Singer Sargent

Italy

1856 – 1925 (69 years old)

Foremost portrait painter of his generation, celebrated for dazzling bravura brushwork and the controversial Portrait of Madame X.

Brookwood, Surrey, United Kingdom

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Politics

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Mulai Ahmed er Raisuni

مولاي أحمد الريسوني

Morocco

1871 – April 1925 (54 years old)

Charismatic mountain leader and Sharif of the Jbala tribes known as 'The Eagle of Zinat', famed internationally for audacious hostage takings (including Ion Perdicaris), later Pasha of Asilah and master of the northwest.

Jbel Alam, Morocco

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Statesmanship & Statesmen

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Sun Yat-sen

孫文 / 孫中山

China

1866-11-12 – 1925-03-12 (58 years old)

Revered across both mainland China and Taiwan as the 'Father of the Nation', having ended imperial dynastic absolutism to found the first Asian republic.

Beijing, China

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Technology

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Clément Ader

Clément Agnès Ader

France

1841 – 1925 (83 years old)

Visionary French electrical and aviation pioneer who coined the word 'avion' in 1890 and made history on October 9, 1890, when his bat-winged, steam-powered aircraft Éole achieved the first unassisted motorized take-off.

Muret (Haute-Garonne), France

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Prophets & Divine Messengers

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Luigj Gurakuqi

Luigj Gurakuqi

Albania

1879-02-19 – 1925-03-02 (46 years old)

Prominent statesman, linguist, and educator who co-drafted the 1912 Declaration of Independence, founded the Normal School of Elbasan, and served as Minister of Education and Finance.

Shkodër, Albania

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Joseph Rowntree

Joseph Rowntree

Great Britain

1836 – 1925 (88 years old)

Industriel quaker et philanthrope britannique, fondateur de trusts dédiés à la recherche sur les causes profondes de la pauvreté et aux réformes sociales.

York, United Kingdom

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Humanitarian & Peace

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Karl Hjalmar Branting

Karl Hjalmar Branting

Sweden

23 November 1860 – 24 February 1925 (64 years old)

Hjalmar Branting was a Swedish statesman who led the Swedish Social Democratic Party and served as Prime Minister of Sweden in three separate administrations. A staunch advocate for peaceful international conflict resolution, Branting supported the League of Nations' peaceful settlement of the Åland Islands dispute, sharing the 1921 Nobel Peace Prize with Christian Lous Lange.

Stockholm, Sweden

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Sciences & Discovery

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Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside

Great Britain

1850 – 1925 (74 years old)

Self-taught English mathematician and electrical engineer who condensed Maxwell's 20 original quaternion equations into the modern four vector calculus equations of electromagnetism and predicted the ionosphere.

Paignton (Devon), United Kingdom

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Resistance & Human Rights

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Mekatilili wa Menza

Mnyazi wa Menza

Kenya

c. 1840 – c. 1925 (~85 years old)

Heroic Giriama woman leader who spearheaded the 1913-1914 Giriama Uprising against British colonial forced labor and hut taxation on the Kenyan coast.

Malindi, Kenya

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Science

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Carl Anton Larsen

Carl Anton Larsen

Norway

1860-08-07 – 1924-12-08 (64 years old)

Visionary Norwegian master mariner and explorer who captained the Antarctic during Nordenskjöld's Swedish Antarctic Expedition and founded the Grytviken settlement in South Georgia.

Sandefjord, Norway

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Arts & Music

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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

Giacomo Puccini

Italy

22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924 (65 years old)

Italian operatic titan regarded as the heir to Verdi, whose heart-wrenching theatrical masterworks—La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot (Nessun dorma)—rank among the most frequently performed operas in history.

Brussels, Belgium

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Resistance & Human Rights

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E. D. Morel

Georges Edmond Pierre Achille Morel-de Ville

France

10 July 1873 – 5 November 1924 (51 years old)

British journalist, author, and politician who uncovered King Leopold II's rubber slave-labor regime in the Congo Free State, founding the Congo Reform Association to lead the first global human rights campaign of the 20th century.

Bovey Tracey, Devon, Great Britain

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Arts & Music

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Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Fauré

France

1845 – 1924 (79 years old)

Refined French master of melody and harmony whose Requiem and chamber songs linked late Romanticism to 20th-century modernism.

Paris, France

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